by Corr » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:19 pm
I am so late to this, sorry. It seemed to take an age for me to get through it, and although I do agree with Jim on a couple of dullard related points, it was mainly because I was tempted away by young adult books about fairies (dont judge).
I did struggle at the start and I worried for De Waals sanity, given the information and documents he must have gone through to get the book finished but I was really interested in the lovers and affairs, the amount of comings and goings from one or the others bedroom. The things those tiny sculptures must have seen. Then of course things did turn Nazi-bad and by then I was rocketing along. Plus I'm really into collections of stuff and the sort of people who collect such stuff. I liked it.